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Musicmystery -> RE: please let it be so..... (7/26/2014 9:35:20 AM)
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Are you hung over and unable to focus on words this morning?
He didn't say they weren't governors -- he said that despite being governors, they didn't have the experience needed.
In Reagan's case, his life experience led him to believe as if truth an economic system that when put to the test, as his own people admitted later, failed.
In W's case, he doubled down on the failure and added to it failed practices from the Nixon years. Reagan was just mistaken -- this was simple disregard for reality, and disregard repeated by his telling the Fed and the CIA what that should tell him.
Hell, Sarah Palin was a governor . . .
People get elected for all sorts of plastic reasons (and yes, you're right that Obama got elected on an excellent speech and sheer fatigue with 8 years of 'permanent Republican majority' rubber-stamping. . . that's what "his" Peace Prize was about too).
Generally, Senators and Governors are the list people check when looking for presidential candidates (yes, Congresspeople, generals, and business people make the list too, with some exception). But I'm sure we can readily agree that many in that mix would not make good presidents.
Can you imagine -- Bill Gates for President? Senator McCarthy? Charles Rangel? I'm still laughing at "President" Palin. You betcha.
General Eisenhower was a decent president, all in all. General Grant was not. Position alone is not a hard factor in predicting success.
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